"There were quite ridiculous scenes at a council meeting in Barking & Dagenham last night when leading BNP members publicly fell out with each other. In front of about 40 BNP supporters packed into the public gallery, including BNP leader Nick Griffin, Bob Bailey, the leader of the BNP group on the council tried to stop GLA member Richard Barnbrook from raising the Africans for Essex issue in the chamber.

Barnbrook refused to be silenced and continued, much to Bailey's annoyance. Bailey was heard to tell Barnbrook to shut the **** up. Barnbrook replied that he would say what he liked, to which Bailey retored: "not as long as I'm leader."

Any appearance at City Hall could gather a lot of publicity for the Barking candidate, but it would also risk even more exposure for the reliably useless Barnbrook.

If I were Nick Griffin, I would keep my distance.

-Update- City Hall's security team were apparently not very pleased to find out that their ultra-secret and ultra-secure Nick Griffin operation has been revealed on this not so secret or secure blog. Well if they would go around telling everybody about it...

5 comments:

Tommy
said...

Griffin hasn't got a hope in hell of winning Barking or any other parliamentary seat in the country and the only reason he won a seat in the Euros is because of proportional representation and even then it was a close thing. The whole thing is a stunt.

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